WHAT DO YOU THINK? 2 Knights or 2 Bishops?

Please comment below on your favourite. https://www.chess.com/blog/Advtrip/what-do-you-think-2-rooks-or-a-queen this is the link for my previous one in this series.

 s the second in this series I am going to ask 2 knights or 2 bishops.

POINTS

A knight is worth 3 points and so is the bishop they are both minor pieces but of differing abilities hear we will have to give both 1 point.

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WANTED?

Once again we will resort to pawns to decide this. As we know from the last one queens and rooks are the most popular pieces to promote to. Still though there is that small chance that you will promote to something else most of the time it is the knight then that gets it possibly getting match winning forks.

Can you spot the knight fork in the picture above?

It is safe to say that knight wins this.

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AVAILABILITY

Like in the last one we will divide this into 3 sections.

Starting positions 

As you can see these are the knight openings the common 4 or 3 knights. This normally happens because knights can jump over other pieces and bishops cant. Lets look at a bishop example. 

As you can see this is the Scholars mate which comes early and the bishop has a key part. Sadly though this section is about availability so the next example will show just that.

The 2 bishops are commonly available after the queens gambit but the knights are available first so they win this.

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Middle game

This is a bishop middle game from one of my games and as you can see white is winning even though it took them 1 extra move to develop into the queens gambit declined bishop variation. Lets look at the knight variation.

This is a knight beginning into a further middle game at the beginning though black put a lot of pressure on white with a queens gambit opening which then moved to an attack on the knight white in the end won the same amount of material as it did in the bishop variation but it took longer so the bishops win this.

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Endgame

This is an early endgame situation with the bishops where you sacrifice a pawn to later win the rook and soon win the game it actually comes at the end of the middlegame but still it ends the game.

Lets look at the knights.

This is the knight variation of an endgame which successfully leads to a rook sacrifice checkmate.

The knight wins here.

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ATTACKING

In this section we will look at attacking forks will be our decider.

Lets look at the knights

These are 2 common point winning forks with nights.

Bishop time.

These are bishop forks. The knight will win this though because they can fork when un expected bishops will be on the same diagonal so they will know.

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Remember this is my opinion.